{"id":31784,"date":"2021-05-06T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/judith-collins-comments-on-maori-health-policy-are-a-diversion"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:34:11","slug":"judith-collins-comments-on-maori-health-policy-are-a-diversion-claire-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31784","title":{"rendered":"Judith Collins\u2019 comments on M\u0101ori health policy are a diversion | Claire Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National leader\u2019s warning about greater M\u0101ori self-governance are designed to deflect from her unpopularity <\/p>\n<p>In October I wrote in praise of the M\u0101ori party\u2019s Mana Motuhake policy, a 25-year plan to improve M\u0101ori outcomes based on M\u0101ori asserting their right to exercise <em>tino rangatiratanga<\/em> \u2013 roughly translated as self-management, self-determination and self-governance \u2013 over all their domains. I predicted that whether the M\u0101ori party made it back into parliament in 2020 or not (it did), this call was only going to get louder.<\/p>\n<p>After a speech last Saturday by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/14\/judith-collins-new-zealands-anti-ardern-whose-hero-is-thatcher\">National party opposition leader, Judith Collins<\/a>, this issue has been catapulted to the middle of the political agenda. Collins\u2019 speech drew attention to a report named <em>He Puapua<\/em>, written by an expert working group charged by the Labour-led coalition cabinet in 2019 to develop a plan and engagement process to realise the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP), which the John Key-led National coalition government signed up to in 2010.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/06\/judith-collins-comments-on-maori-health-policy-are-a-diversion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National leader\u2019s warning about greater M\u0101ori self-governance are designed to deflect from her unpopularity In October I wrote in praise of the M\u0101ori party\u2019s Mana Motuhake policy, a 25-year plan to improve M\u0101ori outcomes based on M\u0101ori asserting their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1700,897,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-judith-collins","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31785,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31784\/revisions\/31785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}